coronavirus

Health care experts and Iowans who are at high-risk for death and severe illness from COVID-19 share their personal stories about this stage of the pandemic.

Federal health officials have given the green light to vaccinate children ages 6 months to 4 years against COVID-19, and experts are urging parents to get their young children vaccinated as soon as possible.

UnityPoint Health says it is experiencing a shortage of intravenous contrast dyes used in some diagnostic imaging scans.

A new study shows alcohol use increased during the pandemic for those 21 and older, but finding treatment can be a challenge.

The report by the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said meat companies pushed to keep their plants open even though they knew workers were at high risk of catching the coronavirus.

Drake University in Des Moines is moving its last week of classes online and has asked students on campus to move out early amid an increase in COVID cases.

Two years into the pandemic, data shows that the toll on children’s mental health has been profound. Children of frontline health care workers had a front row seat to the pandemic’s scariest moments from day one.

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found less than 8 percent of COVID patients in a remote monitoring program were hospitalized early in the pandemic.

It’s been two years since the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Iowa, and the pandemic has had a drastic impact on Iowans’ lives and the state’s health care system. That's as Iowans settle into a new normal of living with and monitoring the virus.

Des Moines Public School District Superintendent Thomas Ahart says he will step down in June, a year earlier than expected.